Archive for January, 2012

This is a maintenance release coming after Firebug 1.9. Two highlights from this release:

Workaround for a crash on Mac and Linux 32 bit running Firefox 9. Due to a bug in the debugger service in Firefox 9 the Script panel is disabled in aforementioned configurations. Using Firefox 10 is recommended solution for this problem.

Delayed Firebug Load

Firebug doesn’t slow down Firefox start time anymore since its loaded as soon as the user actually needs it. There are only a few things loaded at the browser start-up time: the main Firebug menu, Firebug start button and inspect menu-item in page context menu.

This also means that Firebug extensions overlaying only the Firebug UI are loaded as soon as Firebug itself is loaded and so, don’t slow down Firefox start-up time too.

Bootstrapped Firebug

It is now possible to install (and uninstall) Firebug without browser restart. We are also working on APIs that will allow developing bootstrapped (restart-less) Firebug extensions. An example extension is coming soon.

Thanks to awesome Harutyun Amirjanyan for his help on these features!

Some other highlights from this release:

Every option in panel’s mini tab menu has a tooltip with a description. This should help to understand it’s purpose (issue 3183)

Firebug 1.9 is out of the door and FWG is hardworking to further improve Firebug. We have already got a list of things we would like to focus on in 1.10. Take a look at Firebug Roadmap and let us know what would be your wish list or what you think should be the priorities. We are also looking for developers who would like to be part of FWG and help Firebug to grow!

Since AMO site doesn’t support alpha channels all alpha releases will be available only on getfirebug.com